Exhibition
Mudam, Luxembourg (LU) 'The Space of Words'
Feb 19 - May 25 incl 'Laurien 1996-2007' (2007), 'Robert 1996-2007' (2007), 'Switch' (1998) by Manon de Boer
info: www.mudam.lu
Exhibition
MMKA, Arnhem (NL) 'Ophelia, Sehnsucht, melancholie en doodsverlangen'
Feb 20 - May 10 incl 'Pang' (2005) by Anouk De Clercq
info: www.mmkarnhem.nl
Exhibition
LLS 387 Ruimte voor actuele kunst, Antwerpen (BE) 'Jeugdzonde. Over opus 1 en opus min 1'
Mar 19 - May 30 incl a contribution by Anouk De Clercq
info: users.telenet.be/lls387
Exhibition
Videonale 12, Bonn (DE)
Mar 25 - Apr 27 incl 'Attica' (2008) by Manon de Boer
info: www.videonale.org
Exhibition
Cultuurcentrum De Meent, Alsemberg (BE) '360c Landschap in Beweging'
Mar 30 - Apr 27 incl 'Kernwasser Wunderland' (2004) by Anouk De Clercq
info: www.rasa.be
Exhibition
STRP, Eindhoven (NL) 'Art and Technology'
Apr 02 - Apr 13 incl 'probe' (2008) by Boris Debackere
info: www.strp.nl
Exhibition
Atelier Frankfurt (DE) 'Argos zu Gast im Atelier Frankfurt'
Apr 03 - Jun 01 incl 'Altogether' (2008) by Herman Asselberghs
info: www.argosarts.org
| 11 | Exhibition Ernst Museum, Budapest (HU) 'Verite Exposee' Apr 11 - May 31 incl 'Johan' (2001) and 'François' (2003) by Sven Augustijnen info: www.mucsarnok.hu |
| 17,18 | Screening & Talk 20.15 Frac Bourgogne, Dijon (FR) 'Yves' (2007) by Olivier Zabat info: www.frac-bourgogne.org |
| 19 | Screening 14.00 Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid (ES) incl 'Altogether' (2008) by Herman Asselberghs info: http://art-action.org |
| 21 | Screening Theater Mercelis, Brussel (BE) incl 'Sylvia Kristel - Paris' (2003) by Manon de Boer and 'Altogether' (2008) by Herman Asselberghs info: www.sacd-scam.be |
| 21 | Exhibition Shanghai Art Museum (CN) 'A story of the image' Apr 30 - Jun 21 incl 'Presto, Perfect Sound' (2006) by Manon de Boer and 'L'Ecole des Pickpockets' (2000) by Sven Augustijnen info: www.muhka.be |
| 23 | Screening 20.00 Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid (ES) incl 'Two Times 4'33"' (2008) by Manon de Boer info: http://art-action.org |
| 23 | Exhibition Tate Modern, London (GB) 'Stutter' Apr 23 - Aug 16 incl 'Johan' (2001) and 'François' (2003) by Sven Augustijnen info: www.tate.org.uk |
| 25 | Screening 16.00 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck (DE) incl 'Two Times 4'33"' (2008) by Manon de Boer info: www.emaf.de |
| 25 | Exhibition De Warande, Turnhout (BE) 'Filmfestival Open Doek: De Man met de Camera' Apr 25 - May 17 incl 'Le Guide du Parc' (2001) by Sven Augustijnen info: www.warande.be |
| 26 | Exhibition The Renaissance Society, Chicago (US) 'Several Silences' Apr 26 - Jun 07 incl 'Two Times 4'33"' (2008) by Manon de Boer info: www.renaissancesociety.org |
| 27 | Exhibition Cultuurcentrum Dilsen-Stokkem (BE) '360c Landschap in Beweging' Apr 27 - May 12 incl 'Kernwasser Wunderland' (2004) by Anouk De Clercq info: www.rasa.be |
| 01 | Exhibition de Appel (NL) 'Untitled (Take the Money and Run)' May 01 - 16 incl 'Johan' (2001) and 'François' (2003) by Sven Augustijnen info: www.deappel.nl |
| 03 | Exhibition Ludlow 38, New York (US) 'Chance Encounters' May 03 - Jun 21 incl 'Resonating Surfaces' (2005) by Manon de Boer info: www.ludlow38.org |
| 04 | Screening 12.30 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (DE) incl 'Altogether' (2008) by Herman Asselberghs info: www.kurzfilmtage.de |
| 12 | Exhibition Cultuurcentrum Schoten (BE) '360c Landschap in Beweging' May 12 - Jun 02 incl 'Kernwasser Wunderland' (2004) by Anouk De Clercq info: www.rasa.be |
| 15 | Exhibition Le Cuvier, Bordeaux (FR) 'La Part des Anges' May 15 - 19 incl 'Iets op Bach' (1998), 'L'Ecole des Pickpockets' (2000) & 'Le Guide du Parc' (2001) by Sven Augustijnen info: www.lecuvier.eu |
| 15 | Screening 20.15 Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (NL) 'Transmediale 09 Video Selection' incl 'Altogether' (2008) by Herman Asselberghs info: www.transmediale.de |
| 15 | Exhibition MACBA, Barcelona (ES) 'Time As Matter. MACBA Collection' May 15 - Aug 31 incl 'Attica' (2008) by Manon de Boer info: www.macba.es |
| 17 | Screening 20.15 Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (NL) 'Transmediale 09 Video Selection' incl 'Altogether' (2008) by Herman Asselberghs info: www.transmediale.de |
| 19 | Screening 10.00 St-Lukas Hogeschool Brussel (BE) incl 'Resonating Surfaces' (2005) by Manon de Boer info: www.sintlukas.be |
| 19 | Screening 18.00 Synoptic Visionaudial Art Meeting, Pecs (HU) 'Transmediale 09 Video Selection' incl 'Altogether' (2008) by Herman Asselberghs info: www.transmediale.de |
| 20 | Auction 17.00 de Appel (NL) incl 'Johan' (2001) and 'François' (2003) by Sven Augustijnen info: www.deappel.nl |
| 23 | Screening 19.30 Media City Festival, Ontario (CA) incl 'Two Times 4'33"' (2008) by Manon de Boer info: www.houseoftoast.ca |
| 25 | Screening 20.30 Cinematheque Francaise, Paris (FR) incl 'Two Times 4'33"' (2008) by Manon de Boer info: www.cinematheque.fr |
| 26 | Screening 12.00 Arenberg, Brussels (BE) incl 'Altogether' (2008) by Herman Asselberghs info: www.arenberg.be |
| 26 | Screening 18.30 NADA New Video Nights, Horton & Co, New York (US) incl 'Attica' (2008) by Manon de Boer info: www.suprememanagement.com |
The fifth installment of An Evening with Auguste Orts takes place in the afternoon inside the Orts office.
It is the first in a series of small-scale events informally focusing on topics related to the Orts members' art practice.
While our regular Orts evenings concentrate on the presentation of screen and/or audio works, this new series favors discourse, dialogue and encounter.
An Evening with Auguste Orts #5 on Friday April 17 from 2 to 5 p.m. includes an in-depth presentation leading up
to a lengthy conversation with the audience members and is rounded off by a short film screening. Our guest is Dan Kidner, British researcher
and director of City Projects, London. He writes regularly for contemporary art magazines including Untitled, Frieze and Exit Express,
and has recently worked with artists Nils Norman, Graham Fagen, Mark & Stephen Beasley, and Knut Asdam.
Under the title The surge that sets the thoughts in motion, Dan Kidner's talk will look closely at two films: Harun Farocki's Images of the
World and the Inscription of War (1989), and Yvonne Rainer's Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980). Made at either end of the 1980s, the two films
have much in common. They both seem to suggest a possibility for film that went unrealised, and both, in different ways, mourn in advance that
lost possibility. They both have history on their minds, and formally they are similar too, utilising similar techniques to disrupt narrative and set "thoughts in motion".
It is this setting of thoughts in motion that Kidner wants to look at in detail. What kind of thinking is required of these films? And if these
are "political films", or rather, if the artists were politically motivated to make these films, what kind of politics is being demonstrated or
expressed? Kidner will argue that rather than the films merely elaborating political ideas, or critically exploring a subject, they are creating a
space in which the viewer is able to think for him or herself.
Reservation required. More info & preview material: info@augusteorts.be
Manon de Boer received the Videonale prize for 'Attica' (2008) at Videonale 12, Bonn (DE). The jury consisted of Stephan Berg
(director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn), Barbara Honrath (director of the section of audiovisual arts at Goethe Institute) and Annelie Pohlen
(former director of the Bonner Kunstverein and art critic). From the jury's statement: "Particularly convincing in 'Attica' is surely the
consistency, interlinked and clearly analysable, of the conception of the topic and the formal process, as well as the use of artistic/technical
means, which is limited to what corresponds to inherent necessity. More decisive still, however, is the suggestive energy with which de Boer's
artistic "language" charges the field of perception between the work and the viewer, drawing the latter into the course of events by making some
things patent and at the same time distanced, and by concealing, and finally leaving to the viewer, the individual perception between theoretical
knowledge and melancholy experience. Even with no knowledge of the initial material on which it is based, or of the art-immanent theoretical
discourse, 'Attica' - in which it is symptomatic of the works that de Boer has created up to now - is a subtle play with fragmented time within
fields of surfaces that flow into each other, and which reveal to the reason and the senses as much as they conceal from them."